Logan Republican | 1903-09-12 | Page 3 | Mrs. Malaprop in Real Life

MRS. MALAPROP IN REAL LIFE. Comical Phrases Acrlbed to Newly Rich American Woman. A young Philndclphlan who has just returned from abroad traveled on tho same steamer with Molly Klllott Scawoll, tho novelist, and found her to bo a woman with a keon appreciation apprecia-tion of humor. Sho told of a very rich but rather vulgar American whoso daughter had married Into tho nobility and who was a veritable Mrs. Malaprop. "The old lady spends considerable of her tlmo with this married daughter," daugh-ter," said Miss Snawell, "and when I met- her In London sho gavo me a very pressing invitation to come out and seo her at hor daughter's country coun-try house. Then sho started to do-scrlbo do-scrlbo what evidently had been an old baronial castle remodeled, only she referred to It as a baronlcal castle, whatover that may bo. 'In tho hall thoy havo tho loveliest pair of antler's ant-ler's horni you ever saw,' sho said. 'And tho hall has been entirely rum nlatcd.' "I ventured to express tho hope that the stairs had not been altered, for I have a sort of veneration for the stairways stair-ways and balconies that aro cbrarac-terlstlc'of cbrarac-terlstlc'of tho old English houses. 'Oh, goodness mo! yes,' sho said. 'They havo a spinal stairway now."' Philadelphia Phila-delphia Record.